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In the Growing Old of Aging

So much

has been sloughed

off in the growing

old of aging.


Older, always older

a full tension between

the pressures of

collapse and decay.


What we call

wisdom is 


a deciding


not to repeat the

the many, many

things that waste

what time 


we hope we

might have left.


Might a rabbit 

have any real knowing

of its end before

the final


hawk-fall and the

tightening of the

claw on the fur and

the tearing of

the talon through

the muscle.


A mighty grip,

then off.


She will have

no such wisdom

to live from


today.  Might 

that she had been

fully-lived


before her flight.




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